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NEW YORK, June 11, 2009 – Amita Gupta and Catherine Franklin, members of faculty of the City College of New York (CCNY) School of Education, have received 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar grants for research and teaching abroad. Dr. Gupta, an Associate Professor whose expertise includes early childhood education and teacher education in international contexts, will travel to South Asia this fall to conduct research in India, Sri Lanka and Maldives. She will examine current directions in early education and urban teacher preparation policies in response to the effects of globalization in Asia. Dr

The City College of New York will be well represented at the World Science Festival, which runs June 10 – 14, with some of CCNY’s prominent scientists and alumni participating in the program. The Festival aims to cultivate public interest, awareness and support for science by taking it out of the laboratory and into the streets, theaters, museums, and public halls of New York City. Participating presenters include entertainers, writers and artists, as well as scientists. Nobel Laureate and CCNY Alumnus Leon Lederman, ’43, will participate in “Matter: Stories of Atoms and Eves,” a panel

More than 100 experts on network and telecommunications security from academia, government and industry attended a two-day conference on Cyber Infrastructure Protection: Policy and Strategy, June 4 – 5. The event, sponsored by The Grove School of Engineering’s Center for Information Networking and Telecommunicationsand the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, offered presentations on the newest threats to cyber infrastructure as well as novel strategies for thwarting them. Attendees heard experts from the National Defense University describe a scenario whereby a powerful

NEW YORK, June 9, 2009 – A team of engineers with CCNY’s NOAA-CREST Center is applying remote sensing data to model outbreaks of malaria and help the southwest African nation of Namibia protect against them. Their efforts could help one of the world’s poorest nations more effectively allocate scarce resources to combat the deadly disease and save lives. Namibia has experienced unprecedented flooding, mainly in its northern areas, over the past several years, probably caused by global warming, notes Dr. Leonid Roytman, Professor of Electrical Engineering in The Grove School of Engineering at

Plans to Use $19,000 Stipend to Document AIDS Crisis in Swaziland NEW YORK, June 1, 2009 -- Kyle Meyer, a recent graduate of The City College of New York's (CCNY) Art Program, is a 2009 winner of the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship. He plans to use the Fellowship, which carries a $19,000 stipend, to travel to Swaziland this fall to document communities affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic there. Mr. Meyer graduated from City College on May 28 with a B.A. in Studio Art, with a concentration in photography.He is the eighth CCNY student to be named a Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Fellow since

NEW YORK, May 18, 2009 – Ilan McKenna and Sara Roffino, graduate students in The City College of New York's (CCNY) School of Education, have received 2009-2010 Fulbright Program English Teaching Assistantships (ETA). ETAs are grants whose recipients are placed in schools or universities out of the host country's capital city. Grant recipients are assigned various activities designed to improve their students' language abilities and knowledge of the United States. Ms. McKenna, who is pursuing a Master's in Special Education (M.S.E.D.) is headed for New Delhi, India, in July to teach English in

Social Activist Geoffrey Canada & Top Curator Thelma Golden to be honored, CCNY President’s Medal to Philanthropist Bernard Spitzer ’43 NEW YORK, May 13, 2009 – The City College of New York (CCNY) will confer honorary degrees on Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of Harlem Childen's Zone, and Thelma Golden, director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem,at its 163rd Commencement Exercises, Thursday, May 28.Philanthropist and real estate developer Bernard Spitzer, '43, will receive The City College President's Medal for Distinguished Service. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. outside

Award Provides $8,000 Stipend for Medical School NEW YORK, May 7, 2009--- Martin Detchkov and Mario A. Pinto, seniors at The City College of New York (CCNY) were awarded the 2009 Jonas E. Salk Award, which supports study at medical school. They were among eight CUNY students to receive the prestigious scholarships, which will be presented in a ceremony May 13 at Baruch College. Mr. Detchkov, a Bronx resident, and Mr. Pinto, who lives in Harlem, will both receive $8,000 stipends to assist with medical school studies. The scholarship is named for Dr. Jonas E. Salk, a 1934 graduate of CCNY, who

Finding Points to Role for Genetics in Development of Culture NEW YORK, May 3, 2009 – In an experiment that points to a role for genetics in the development of culture, biologists at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that zebra finches raised in isolation will, over several generations, produce a song similar to that sung by the species in the wild. According to Dr. Olga Fehér, who conducted the experiment for her dissertation at CCNY, first generation male zebra finches raised in isolation produced an unstructured, often abnormal

Teams Given One Hour to Design New Public Use for DUMBO Archway NEW YORK, April 29, 2009 – A team of four Architecture and Landscape Architecture graduate students from The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY) bested rivals from three other New York City architecture schools to win an “Iron Designer” competition. The contest was inspired by the popular television series “Iron Chef.” Landscape Architecture majors Halina Steiner and Brett Seamans and Architecture majors Perry Randazzo and Orlando Rymer represented CCNY in the contest, held